a bus explosion in tel aviv brings the confrontation with gaza to the heart of a zero with hamas reportedly declaring the blast and. dozens more israeli strikes on the occupied territory take the bloody bloody body count and say all one hundred sixty destroying life line tunnels and government buildings. and the two hours declares and wavering of support for israel after striking a you on a sinking whether you want a resolution calling for a cease fire of raising questions over the over its own truce initiative.

this is coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program the harsh reality of war is being felt in tel aviv today where a bus explosion has left fifteen people injured already labeled a terror attack the explosion is set to have taken place near the israeli army's headquarters let's now get the latest paula it's clear who's close to the site of the blast hello there paula so when the stand a manhunt is underway so what more can you tell us on the blast. well yes this manhunt is under way we understand that they're looking for two people one of whom is a female now the police have told us that what they think happened is that one of these two placed a bag with a bomb on the bass and then immediately ran off the whole of tel aviv is in shutdown the schools all closed children are being prevented from going home because there's also growing concern that there could be a second loss for a potential second suicide bombing that is being planned now it was widely

anticipated that such a blast could happen not to say that people here are not shocked but there has been warnings issued for the cost few days by both the police and the army for people to be extra vigilant that they are receiving that that the police have been receiving threats of terror at the same time we do understand that the aqsa martyrs brigade which is the military wing of fatah has claimed responsibility although the blast has been welcomed by hamas through the alexa television a mass has said that this is a victory from god they say that they bless this operation and that it is the natural reaction to israel's killings and operations in gaza city there are also people celebrating and dancing in the streets of gaza certainly this was the reaction when the news first came through that a bus bombing had happened in tel aviv the last time that there was a bus bombing in this country was back in two thousand and six so it certainly does seem to have the effect of becoming to cease fire talks right and where does this all leave any chance of

a cease fire. well the hopes of any kind of cease fire deal now be reached certainly not today seem to have been with less than twenty four hours ago that i was sitting here and telling you that we heard in the moment from him us that the cease fire was on the card israel said it was given the level of some twenty four hours to try and see the sincerity from the hamas aside we haven't yet had any reaction from the israeli government but no doubt that the action when it comes is going to. the harsh and increasingly it does seem now that instead of moving ahead with a ceasefire we're going to be moving ahead with an israeli ground operation the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has finished a meeting with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and she's on her way back to jerusalem it is significant that when she met with him that meeting lasted a little less than an hour there were no statements given afterwards by comparison when she landed here yesterday and if the israeli prime minister there was a press conference held at that press conference clinton did say that did say that

washington support for israel was rock solid and she's now in a way back to brief natanya who in terms of the latest talks but this briefing comes in the light of this tel aviv suicide bombing which has been confirmed to have been a terrorist attack by the israeli authorities so no doubt that briefing might take a very different way and a very different route to perhaps what clinton intended in the early hours of this morning. she's live from tel aviv paula thank you very much. the israeli offensive in gaza and has its second week with a barrel of missiles from and seized devastating there more than one hundred forty people have been killed many of them civilians according to girls a base journalist fear both who are trying to report because they are also being targeted. gazans don't expect to see a cease fire they remember all too well the operation cast lead and what's happened in the last twenty four hours resembles increasingly. the reports of white

phosphorus destroying off the bridge that connects middle north gaza with the south of the isolation of the south of gaza israel has intensified the pounding of gaza particularly the targeting of governmental and police buildings and the biggest police station was totally leveled causing structural damage to nearby buildings some of the biggest governmental structures in gaza city were targeted including the biggest civil service building here in gaza. in the southern area of the gaza strip was targeted heavily overnight particularly the smuggling tunnels which gazans called the survival smuggling tunnels also killed three media workers short . two of them a cameraman for the t.v. channel another full of the educational television channel according to israel these stations that these new workers work for legitimate journalistic enterprise it was susceptible to being toggles and. israel is not winding down its assault

on gaza. and let's not get more perspective on the booming and the expanding frontlines in this conflict with patrick hannifin political analyst for the u.k. call him mr henning thank you very much for joining us so ordinary israelis have already shown that support for the actions of their military and. last only cement their position that. yes the last intel of eve is going to cost of fi israeli public opinion even more so than it is already but still it's not clear who is responsible completely clear who is responsible for the blast in tel aviv there has been an official group to step forward and take responsibility so the timing of it is quite interesting actually yes and where does this leave the chance of a cease fire that. well there was you know we really have to look at the larger perspective of this recent conflict with gaz and the ceasefire process was under

way before this operation began and as we had baskin on your program that we could go saying that israel decided it was not in their long term strategic interests to pursue a truce because they believed it would strengthen a mosque in some way so again i think israeli people are partly responsible for really torpedo torpedoing the peace process with the hamas in gaza oh i tend to if this was indeed hamas is always allies to war what they feign calling isn't any israeli reaction likely to make a central bank and a considerable and ultimately deadly. yeah but we have to also look at this from another perspective i mean gaza is probably the world's largest open prison with the most amount of people are densely populated area the poverty level is that strain so this would be the equivalent of the prison warden clamping down on

a prison riot or something to this effect it's like shooting fish in a barrel so to call it a military conflict is it's really out of proportion it's not a military conflict is i tend to go into nelson actually being published steen ians and palestinian civilians again paying the price yes. yes yeah again it's collective punishment on the part of the palestinians and this is a pattern we've seen over and over this essentially this is cast lead two point zero really note it's really no different from the first cast lead up ration only that the public now the public opinion has us one more in the direction of the palestinians and i think there's an overall change in general opinions in places like europe and the united states which is something that israel has defend with. we're also seeing that painting on blogs and twitter that a zero draw in this latest bomb attack upon a cell because of the fear also to have its attacks on gaza that will do you make of this song comment. i think i think does not that's not really an argument that's

going to go anywhere but really we have to look at the fact that this israeli policy of suppressing palestinians in the west bank and in gas that it's really is an ideological political cul de sac that the hard right in israel has driven its own people into so they really have no other direction i mean you can't ignore the fact that the living standards in palestine horrible and also to have in south africa the south african air force did not deploy f. sixteen jets to shoot missiles into townships so this is an apartheid regime that is much more extreme even than in south africa and that's the historical perspective people need to really look at this has no place in the twenty first century rises really is with israel stuck in the twentieth century much a very brief if you can and day for a cease fire is put in place what's changed to show hamas has been half time and i had to has it support way. though really look at look at the overall dynamics

here because if you put pressure on any area or group you will find it will radicalize so the radicalization of a mosque really suits the heart right in israel it's a bit of a galeon dialectic so you know the people who want conflict with palestinians and want to keep the status quo they actually prefer to deal with a radical hamas to have a more gentle sort of political adversary and palestine doesn't suit the hard right in israel so this is a what equation has a very bad outcome in the end but it serves the interests of certain a minority within the israeli leadership patrick caddell sanchez political analyst told the u.k. call on. a website many thanks. under earlier we spoke to the spokesperson for the israeli prime minister's office and he says that the bombing campaign against gaza is aimed at bringing peace and safety to israeli citizens. we

see the from the hamas terrorists they target only civilians and the c. of big when the innocent people but why don't you kill the will years from us rockets and our civilians on low and no civilians in. the israeli government decided that we have to stop these attacks in our civilians and our children and our elders and that's why we target and we must stop these attacks and we really hope that it will no need for further eight army invasion we really hope it will be done by diplomatic route of course you insisted simply responding israel simply responding to attacks against hamas but let's take a look at some think is more than seventy palestinian civilians killed in the past seven days whereas thirteen israelis have died in iraq rocket attacks actually from

gaza since the last major israeli operation four years ago israel government's response disproportionate it's definitely big numbers and we do and we do know as i said the. continue hiding behind civilians so please if you feel that it must start so we call upon all the international community and we call upon everybody who really doesn't want this violence first of all to pressure on terrorist organizations to stop this violence and to call upon them not to use civilians then israel will stop any kind of operations because all we need is safety all we need all we need is peaceful life for our children and for ourselves we just want safety for. well continue our coverage of the bloody standoff between israel and hamas after a short break and also coming up for you syria's new opposition coalition is

collecting a perv. britain because the latest country to recognize the group as the sole representative of the syrian people. and they want to see the words just how. close it could be a bleak winter for millions of u.k. residents with soaring bills plunging more and more families into fuel poverty and profits increasing. trimmings and this is true even for specialists a voice can produce several sounds it kwame's. the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. i am. a

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a. instrument. there was it observed a flaw is because of the spirit of the horse going to his dream and said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so he called the instrument again you which means come back and this melody an instrument is called cry over again. this is our cities go to where there's and back to our top story israel's been bombed into gaza. despite talk of

a pending ceasefire but the current standoff between israel and hamas goes beyond diplomatic wrangles spreading to the internet. the latest military conflict in the gaza strip may go down in history as the first war ever declared on twitter the official account of the israeli defense force announced the start of the pillar of defense operation and one of the us literally told the enemy to run and hide but later hamas had their say using similar war rhetoric. this exchange has been retreated thousands of times since and numbers do matter on twitter through hits likes replies and reach weeds more people than ever before turned to social media and the question is who is winning this online warfare and numbers speak for themselves according to the hashtags dot org website the guards are under attack crash tag is ten times more popular than israel under fire pray for gaza is twenty times more popular than pray for israel and gaza hash tag is

almost twice as popular as israel in a nutshell this is the battle between a heavily funded state propaganda machine and citizen journalism from the outside looking israel's content is better produced more powerful shiny and glossy take these banners for instance which were posted on i.d.'s official facebook page how mars has also been manning the information war trenches some say clumsily as these tweets may suggest but the effect of social media boom among young palestinian activists in changing public perception of the palestinian israeli conflict has been huge youngers the residents regularly rush to hospitals and take and upload photos and videos of tragedy and inhumanity and some of the pictures have become symbolic of israel's disproportionate use of force the graphic and vocal message in those tweets is perhaps the reason why palestinian citizen journalism is proving more effective and why israeli social networkers simply cannot compete with the content coming out of gaza whether this first war started on twitter can become the

first war lost on twitter is a question but one conclusion seems evident enough israel has not grasped the destructive power of social media s tightly as it's holding the people of gaza in its grip. on travels across the middle east to mediate a cease fire and the u.s. secretary of state has made it clear that israel has america's bonking clinton rate arrangement have countries and wavering support for tel aviv but also called for a deescalation of the conflict in order to protect civilians but as you can report it's not always. the crisis in the middle east probably like no other crisis reveals the double speak of u.s. foreign policy the u.s. basically gave green lights to any of their actions with regards to palestinians and israel has been taking advantage of that quite extensively because as president obama explained there is no country on earth would tolerate missiles raining down

on its citizens from outside its borders makes complete sense nobody saw it but one may ask what about all those countries that the us has gone back of ghana's them pakistan yemen and others or is it that when you refer to civilian deaths as collateral damage somehow fooling civilians sounds more to bite when it comes to the does a situation you usually hear u.s. officials speak along these lines of course in a conflict like this. with the u.s. is not always like that when the government was killing civilians the u.s. forced to sympathize with the innocents there in most graphic terms but it appears in washington sympathy for suffering tenby select it this is hillary clinton on syria the shooting death of a one year old recently by the syrian regime's tanks and troops. is a very stark example of what is going on. one may ask what about those horrible

shots of children dying in gaza is it somehow a less stark example of what's going on it seems america's world police mindset and standing up for the weak thing doesn't apply to palestinians instead we hear the same mantra from u.s. officials that israel has the right to defend itself which effectively implies that in the eyes of washington the killing of civilians in gaza is justified the u.s. has most recently blocked the u.n. security council statement calling for a cease fire in the israeli gaza conflict deeming that statement unbalanced against israel just goes the us has blocked all other palestinian related un resolutions in the past whether it was on israel continuing to build settlements on occupied territories or other initiatives put forward to ease their years long suppression of the people there by blocking all efforts of the international community to mediate a solution washington contributes to the status quo under status quo here is that

the root causes of the crisis have not been addressed and is the root causes remain any cease fire looks temporary there was a major israeli assault on gaza four years ago to more than a thousand people did not solve the problem so one may argue the status quo almost guarantees that the cycle of violence will continue and we're keeping our finger on the pulse of all developments in the middle east owner and online so check out our live updates section at home for all the nation. leaders of the syrian kurds have rejected the western backed rebel coalition causing thought the division among the new uniformed group several islamist groups they were going to create their own state and when nothing to do with the south

that's as britain joined france in recognizing the opposition coalition asked is sold it to them a voice of the sea when people the european union has given a viable backing to the rebels but only see you nations officially recognize the group the us as the coalition must provide its unity with its predecessor played by infighting and accusations of the russian has also pledged one million pounds of communications support to the rebels after his june brunt says this isn't too different from supplying them with weapons. the u.k. interference is clearly based on the principle that they will decide who sure are unsure and not be the government of syria on all bases of historical president but only acceptable the british government ministry committed to using words in a very peculiar way in recent years they used words like. lethal. and you know warfare is. all kinds of warfare from antiquity to now have been the sword

in the field if you provide a better shield that's not a defensive thing because he means that your sword is more from. some other international news in brief now on this international has condemned bahrain saying the country hasn't delivered on promises to improve its human rights record a report claims to go. down even harder on protesters following last year's anti-government uprising. and gatherings have been banned while there are ongoing reports of torture there borrowing authorities say escalating violence has forced further clampdowns. to suicide bombers have a target a u.s. base in afghanistan's capital kabul killing to are going to guards there apparently try to reach the gate but it detonated their devices wildly spotted them local reports say they turned of and claimed responsibility for that are couples trying to be found this issue of security ahead of a holiday this week. there might be no escape from the biting cold this winter for

millions in the u.k. residents soaring energy prices look set to drag more and more people into so-called fuel poverty or the only way to stay warm is an extra blanket out his glorious math report. it's a beta winter's day in london and insight this flat it's not much warmer single mother of four julie has only one thing on her mind as the cold bites how is she going to pay her ever rising and. i decided to take fewer libel. and i only use one in my. kitchen and my you just one trying to cut down. the bill next time but in regard to bill. we spoke to julie last winter when she was already struggling and we've come back to see how she'll face is even bigger challenge five of the six big energy companies have announced price rises of around

ten percent according to use which whose business it is to help people reduce their bills it will drive more into an increasingly common form of poverty poverty is where you spend more than ten percent of your net income on your energy bills and we've seen these recent price increases pushed three hundred fourteen founts and people into fuel poverty that's on top of an estimated seven million people. one survey ahead of this winter found energy prices were the biggest concern for consumers ninety percent said the cost of energy was their main household worry ahead rising costs for food petrol and mortgage payment julie shows me her energy bills carefully conserve to chart the inexorable rise since she moved in in two thousand and seven she's afraid that this winter her children's health

will suffer again in the winter when accomplice or his extra blanket his socks and don't just put it on the movie we call two thousand and ten two thousand and eleven there were sick because i tried to be mean. while julie is children are getting sick the energy companies are profiting british gas prices are up six percent is on track to make one point four billion pounds in profits this year. and e.t.f. with the highest price rise of ten point eight percent announced profits of one point six billion in february where are you going to find the extra ten percent that's going to go when you go from santa. laura smith r.t. london coming up after the break. at.

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